Growing Russian-Chinese collaboration in the Arctic was showcased in July 2024 through a major naval exercise and maneuvers including nine Russian and Chinese naval vessels on a joint patrol in the Northwest Pacific. In another historic first that month, two Russian bombers and two Chinese bombers flew into Alaska’s Air Defense Identification Zone, leading to their intercept by U.S. and Canadian fighters. Some scholars argue that such Russian-Chinese cooperation “is still limited” in the Arctic, driven primarily by opportunism and economic interests.
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Suicides among active duty military personnel are on the rise, according to the latest information released by the Department of Defense.
The Department’s annual report on suicides in the military, released November 14, said suicides among active duty military rose from 493 in 2022 to 523 in 2023 and noted that most service members who died by suicide were young, enlisted men.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for information regarding the rebranding of West Point’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to “Office of Engagement and Retention” (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:24-cv-02941)).
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The Defense Department will provide Ukraine with antipersonnel land mines, underscoring how President Joe Biden’s administration is becoming increasingly willing to poke the Russian bear in its waning days.
The move comes as the Russians have changed their tactics in Ukraine by leading attacks with dismounted infantry to clear the way for mechanized forces, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters on Wednesday in Laos.
“So that’s what the Ukrainians are seeing right now,” Austin said at a news conference.
Lockheed Martin is gearing up to launch a demonstration mission for its new LM 400 — a common, mid-sized satellite bus that the company plans to use in future bids for Defense Department contracts.
The bus will be launched into low-Earth orbit (LEO) onboard a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket in the first half of 2025, Jeff Schrader, Lockheed Martin Space’s vice president of strategy and business development, told reporters Wednesday.
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled his pick for a key national security position, selecting Matthew Whitaker to serve in his second administration as U.S. ambassador to NATO.
Whitaker was acting attorney general from November 2018 to February 2019 during Trump’s first term. He also previously served as chief of staff in the Justice Department and as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. Additionally, he’s been co-chair for the Center of Law & Justice at the America First Policy Institute and of counsel at Graves Garrett Greim, among other positions.
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Seven software vendors have been awarded prototype contracts to support the U.S. military’s Replicator initiative via a pair of commercial solutions openings, the Defense Innovation Unit announced Wednesday.
Viasat, Aalyria, Higher Ground and IoT/AI were selected among the 119 companies that submitted proposals for DIU’s Opportunistic, Resilient & Innovative Expeditionary Network Topology (ORIENT) commercial solutions opening.
The remains of a World War II bombardier whose B-24 bomber crashed in 1944 were located under 213 feet of water off Papua New Guinea in late September. Searchers found the remains with the help of specialized underwater sensors and an autonomous submarine provided by a nonprofit which works with the U.S. military and families to find missing American service members.
The group, Project Recover, began their investigation in 2017 with an archaeological survey of Papua New Guinea’s Hansa Bay, where a flight of B-24s on a late-war mission had reported one of their own had crashed.